Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Thu Aug 24, 2023 4:15 pm  

The Hollywood Frasier wrote:

Signing Okunbor just stinks of desperation so we go to the very bottom of the barrel and sign this guy and that’s ignoring his off field history.

I hope I’m wrong but this is setting off my Reynolds/Evans alarm

He's not very good then?

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Thu Aug 24, 2023 4:17 pm  

UllFC wrote:

As far as I have read he had relations at age 23 with a 17 year old, which is over the age of consent, got sacked but the NRL later overturned that decision.

The fact he met her on a visit to her school is very very dodgy though.

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Thu Aug 24, 2023 4:25 pm  

He passes the Instagram test so he's signed.

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Thu Aug 24, 2023 4:27 pm  

Yeh, if true then it’s an awful signal from the club and really hard to defend.

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Thu Aug 24, 2023 4:29 pm  

The Hollywood Frasier wrote:

The fact he met her on a visit to her school is very very dodgy though.

Ah didnt see that part of the story!

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Thu Aug 24, 2023 4:31 pm  

Am sure Smith has done his homework. But that won't stop all the fuss and drama

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Thu Aug 24, 2023 4:33 pm  

Not a signing that sits well with me but a Tony smith signing through and through. He’s obviously not bothered about what people are like off the pitch. (E.g minchiella, SKD, Ashworth)

I’m not sure all the details of his controversy but from what it looks like, he had sex with a very young girl that was only just legal (when he was 23) whilst he was doing school visits. Does that make her 18 or 16?

Either way it doesn’t really sit well with me as it’s an abuse of power.

2 of our signings this year I would’ve avoided. Let’s hope they at least perform on the pitch.

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Thu Aug 24, 2023 4:34 pm  

well okunbor signing nearly completes the back row,just need a half back now.

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Thu Aug 24, 2023 4:37 pm  

With all the talk of culture and bringing in not just good players but good people, this seems a strange signing but guess we have to trust TS.
Hopefully he's coming with a big point to prove and he'll get my backing.

Re: Shopping list for 2024 : Thu Aug 24, 2023 4:41 pm  

ComeOnYouUll wrote:

He passes the Instagram test so he's signed.

Like how this is now the standard test for an unannounced signing